One is afraid of height, the other - water, the third - closed space, and the fourth interferes to sleep the color of bed linen. All this phobia! The word is familiar to our hearing, but whether everyone knows that it means in reality, and the phobias differ from fears? Spring light on our fears will help psychologist.
Content
- We have several phobias on our hearing and often talk about them as a medical diagnosis. Is it really?
- About 500 phobias are known, and every 8th person suffers. Phobias and fears are very close to each other. Phobia - this fear is not before the real danger, and before that there is in ourselves. What is really not necessary to fear. For example, trieskidekafobia - the fear of the number 13. You know that in America there are no homes with number 13, and in Florence there is a house 13.5. There are very incomprehensible phobias - for example, fear of marriage or marriage. As a rule, men suffer from. There are leukopobia - a white fear of white, there is a cliononia - a traction constantly lie in bed without special symptoms and testimony to this, the fear of work - he seems to be looking, looking for a job, but, finding, at the last moment begins to panic, and then... again rushes in search.
Classification of insurance
- And whether it is possible to characterize fears?
- There is a certain classification of fears. For example, each period of life corresponds to their fears. Two or three years - a period when the real and imaginary world converge in one point. Baba Yaga from a fabulous being becomes thereby «man», which kidnap the mammy or daddy. It is possible that adults who see children are associated with these fabulous characters. A little later, in 6-7 years, children are afraid of death, as such. In adolescence, children begin to realize their «I». They start a certain confrontation with the world, whom they are aflown in the depths of the soul.
- How to overcome fears?
- Some pass by themselves, but do not let the case on samonek. We must talk fears with children. Need to ask what and whom the child is afraid and draw this character. And then tear the drawing, and the remains of putting in the wind, burn or lower in the toilet with the words that we won the villain together. This, of course, is only one of the ways to deal with fears.
- If the phobia is not the fear of which you can get rid of quite simple, then this is a disease? Or not?
- Sometimes - disease. When psychosomatics is present: sweating appears, the heart jumps out of the chest.
- What are the causes of fears?
- Neurosis. If a person has a conflict situation that he cannot clarify oneself. Then he hides behind the phobia. He hurts her and cherishes, this his phobia, because most often unconsciously understands: if it is removed, you will stay alone with a problem that you need to solve.
Treatment of phobias
- How to treat phobias?
- A person himself can see what scares him and that he is injured by. However, man is inclined to self-deception. Therefore, often a psychotherapist or psychologist, who prescribes medication treatment. Psychotherapist immerses a person in a situation that is afraid, and helps him get along with her. Then the same situation they pass with a psychologist in reality.
- You said that a person can cope with a phobia. How?
It must be submitted that the situation that scares you, on the windshield of the machine. It hits the stone and the situation breaks down. This is an admission of visualization. You can present this situation drawn on the asphalt washed off by shower streams.
- Whether it is necessary to get rid of phobias?
- As we have already said, phobia replaces the problem from which we hurt. From these notes, the problem will not disappear, but only more will grow, and one way or another will have to decide.
